AndrewTS

Anya and I are arguing over this, at least for most NAers. I've always said "Nintendo" or "N-E-S." She says "Ness" and "Snezz." She swears up and down she's right and I'm crazy or something. I've only heard Brits say it. What do you say?

Typically, anyone over 6' is "tall" anyway, so don't sweat not being more of a hoss than you are. Like, if they ever did a Final Fight movie (lol), Don Frye would be a great Haggar tho he's too short: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DonFrye.jpg http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e159/elu...char/haggar.jpg He's M. Bison, you North American scum!

Gamecube DRE?

That would have required them to actually come up with more than 3 gameplay styles, which they were too lazy to do. The gem-hunting went from quick, easy, and fun from the first game to annoying PITA in one simple step: the radar only lets you find them in a specific, arbitrary order. Because that's just metal detectors work, I guess. You can't find your Indian arrowhead before you find your lost house key. And we know drug-sniffing dogs will always seek out pot first, then hash, then cocaine. I think the day that they designed Rouge...then gave her ginormous breasts, they decided it was going to be a furrytastic hit and phoned it in from then on. Then they did some pot. Then some hash. Then some cocaine. In that order, of course.

What exactly are the problems you were having with the Crackdown DLC? Did you lose any save data? The "problems" where if you joined a coop game with somebody who downloaded the free DLC, your save would get borked. And no, I didn't lose any data because I haven't done any coop. Recently that's been fixed, it turns out. From the official Crackdown boards by a RTW poster: http://forums.crackdownoncrime.com/forums/thread/29363.aspx

$14.99 for my new copy, but used ones go for $12.99. Xbox version isn't playable on 360, unfortunately. Speaking of beat 'em ups playable on 360, Anya brought the Buffy games to my attention. Both play on 360, although the first one apparently is better. Sadly, there's no co-op on either one. Surprisingly, those games have high scores across the board.

It seems everybody these days wants to cash in on the old beat 'em ups, but rarely has it been pulled off well. Urban Reign - It's pretty good, one of the best of them so far. Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks - ignore the storyline screwups and you've got a darn fine game. One of the few of these revivals to "get" that 2 player is one of the features that kept the genre going back in the day. Spike Out - Excellent 3D beat 'em up. Older than the above--it's one of the games I'm hoping will become BC for the 360, but since hardly anyone even knows this game exists on Xbox, I don't expect it. Final Fight Streetwise - So close, and yet so far. Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance - Meh. Anyway, this one is from the hands of a talented developer--Clover, who brought us Viewtiful Joe and Okami--and looks quite good. Oh, and it's clearly really, really weird. It's also directed by Resident Evil's Shinji Mikami. Basically it seems like the Japanese take on what Fist of the North Star would be like in the Old West. Oh--and gameplay vids.... E3 Trailer 1: E3 Trailer 2: Gameplay Footage:

SA2 would have been good if there were no Knuckles/Rouge levels, period. And arguably no Tails/Eggman levels, period. Well...maybe.

Pretty good I-no.

IIRC from one of the manuals/strat guides, Solid Snake is partly Japanese, actually. His "father" was a naturalized American of Japanese/British descent.

What message boards were those, BTW? Sonic Adventure 1 is still a good game. It's aged terribly, and I refuse to play the Big levels ever again (I actually beat the entire game, Big levels and all, and played the Super Sonic finale. Very, very fun), however, from then on the series has gone more and more astray. The sad thing is, from SA1 on there's been 3 different lead designers on 3D Sonics, and none of them have managed to make a really good Sonic game, IMO. This guy probably could, but he's moved on to far, far greener pastures.

Yes, because Nintendo *totally didn't delay* Twilight Princess or Metroid Prime 3. No siree. People were just hung up on prospective dates. It had nothing to do with Nintendo failing to release TP so they could put it as a Wii launch game or anything. And let's forget "Spring 2007" was straight from Reggie's mouth and repeated ad nauseum. Any time some one says "3D Zelda formula", replace it with "Ocarina of Time." Because that's what they really mean most of the time. This has been praised as the best 3D Sonic game so far. All I have to say is--it controls better than Sonic Next Gen, and I'd find it acceptable for 20 bucks or so. However, considering what Sega should be doing with the series, it's pathetic.

What exactly are the problems you were having with the Crackdown DLC? Did you lose any save data? The "problems" where if you joined a coop game with somebody who downloaded the free DLC, your save would get borked. And no, I didn't lose any data because I haven't done any coop.

http://kila.twinstar.jp/PHOTO/RR/macoto01.JPG

On a normal-person scale, this is a ringing endorsement. Is that really you? Would someone who utterly loathes the previous Mario Party games and likes Wario Ware perhaps like this one?

Good news--the PS2 version of the game, at least, is ONLY $29.99!

Like I said, Streetwise is cheesy, stupid, and you beat lots of people up. For variety you have silly mini-games and occasionally blow away glowheads (which are *totally* nothing like zombies) with shotguns. With better visuals and a better camera, I don't really see how how you can complain that it isn't a fun *Final Fight* game. Godhand is much the same way. It's cheesy and really stupid, and you beat the hell out of people. It's extremely retro in its game design, unlike Streetwise (which deliberately tries to update more and give you more variety). Streetwise does have an "arcade" mode that's more like a traditional FF game, but it's hella hard and you have no continues. Boo! If you like Godhand, by the way--give Streetwise a fair shot. Indeed, it is! There's even a minigame where you beat up vehicles (it actually appears to be the same SUV from SF3--but in various different colors). Sadly, there's only one actual vehicle model to beat up.

Most annoying part to me is the combination of the guard and attack buttons.

I think I know the game you're referring to--how's the music? It's Koshiro, so I expect awesome.

Resurrecting this thread, because--after getting it dirt cheap and playing the heck out of it: I like Final Fight Streetwise. It's really violent, it's stupid, the camera kind of sucks, but somehow I still like it. Don't get me wrong, it still probably would rank as a bad game to most, but there's a lot of information spread about it that was totally incorrect. Yeah, the cursing and other "mature" material is over the top and a bit much, but most of it is unintentionally hilarious. The cut scenes and acting are cheesy and dumb...but then again, so it's Final Fight period. If you can get over the fact that the Metro City here kind of craps over everything the fighters in the old game accomplished, it's not hard to get into. Clips (a lot NSFW, mainly for violence/language) -- The original intro (toned down in the actual game, but shows you a bit of the combos too): Kyle meets Nicky "The Weasel" Wissel in search of info: Gameplay trailer (with Andore and katana-wielding Asian schoolgirls): The stupid extermination mini-game: Oh, and there's not just one generic throw, either. Besides your regular throw, you can also do a knee-lift combo, a german suplex (learned from Haggar), a quick giant swing (Haggar again), and you can also use a stun headbutt in the midst of a regular combo as well. Most reviewers hated it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y06yENjRLyQ Sadly, the arcade version of Final Fight that's available to unlock is a poor emulation; stick to the one included in the Capcom Classics Collection.

"There's no time to waste." Well, he hasn't praised the sixaxis. Of course, the only ones who seem to do that do that post on gamefaqs and neogaf I think.

Odin Sphere's rather hard to find now. Atlus does low initial print runs all the time. More printings should come, and remember that Gamequest Direct might help out afterwards.